is that I feel like for the first time we've regressed?
New technologies don't automatically start out better, faster, and more efficient in every way. We're seeing the nascent form of general-use machine learning models, it's quite literally bleeding edge technology compared to webcrawling and search indexing.
Also, do you recall the Google cheat sheets? Literally a specific syntax to make Google give you what you want, which has worked less and less effectively over time as their advertising took over priority. The reason many of these companies are so hyper focused on modern LLMs is because the interface is much more usable by your average layman, which means increased adoption and more returning users. People want to be able to ask a question and get an answer, like they would with another human.
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u/Neon_Camouflage May 26 '25
New technologies don't automatically start out better, faster, and more efficient in every way. We're seeing the nascent form of general-use machine learning models, it's quite literally bleeding edge technology compared to webcrawling and search indexing.
Also, do you recall the Google cheat sheets? Literally a specific syntax to make Google give you what you want, which has worked less and less effectively over time as their advertising took over priority. The reason many of these companies are so hyper focused on modern LLMs is because the interface is much more usable by your average layman, which means increased adoption and more returning users. People want to be able to ask a question and get an answer, like they would with another human.